{"id":597,"date":"2007-03-09T06:10:49","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T12:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=597"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:38:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:38:25","slug":"this-is-neutrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"This is Neutrality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"266\" height=\"231\" align=\"left\" alt=\"swiss-guards.jpg\" id=\"image598\" title=\"swiss-guards.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/swiss-guards.jpg\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Switzerland\">Switzerland<\/a>, who has always fed us the line about how &#8220;oh, <em>we<\/em> don&#8217;t actually take sides,&#8221; finally showed their true colors (and they weren&#8217;t red and white) and stepped over the line, so to speak.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kutv.com\/topstories\/local_story_061142110.html\">This is neutrality?<\/a> Note to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swiss_Guards\">Swiss soldiers:<\/a> Stand down; we&#8217;re on to you now. Just take off those ridiculous, multicolored baggy britches you guys call camo, toss us those <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swiss_army_knife\">Swiss Army knives<\/a> and stack up your pikes in a big pile right over there.<\/p>\n<p>When I heard the news, I immediately thought about my Swiss-based blogger friend Brady and hoped that he was keeping his head down and was okay. I anticipated a blog post from the front lines, and he didn&#8217;t disappoint. <a href=\"http:\/\/evendays.org\/2007\/03\/08\/the-invasion-of-liechtenstein\/\">Here,<\/a> he breaks down the invasion, complete with possible explanations and even some thoughts on where they&#8217;re headed next (Hint: France!).<\/p>\n<p>Actually, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liechtenstein\">Liechtensteiners<\/a> never knew they were there (they have no army and hence no border guards) and were quick to forgive when the Swiss offered up their heartfelt mea culpa (along with a few cases of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brauerei-mueller.ch\/default.htm\">M\u00fceller Bra\u00fc<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I wish all invasions were that easy to undo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Switzerland, who has always fed us the line about how &#8220;oh, we don&#8217;t actually take sides,&#8221; finally showed their true colors (and they weren&#8217;t red and white) and stepped over the line, so to speak. This&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,23,44,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-current-events","category-humor","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9657,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/9657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}